The Disneyland Resort in California will join in “Disney 100 Years of Wonder,” a worldwide company celebration to honor the 100th year anniversary of The Walt Disney Company, starting on Jan. 27, 2023. At the September D23 Expo—an event to introduce new developments for Disney for the coming year—a new Walt Disney Studios logo in…
Disney Announces 100-Year Anniversary Platinum Celebration
Homeless Man Charged With Killing Long Beach Woman, Stabbing Others
LONG BEACH, Calif.—A 21-year-old homeless man has been charged with a series of stabbings in Long Beach, including one that left a woman dead, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said Oct. 20. Yohance Dallen Sharp was scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 21 on one count each of murder, assault with a deadly weapon,…
Meditation Group Hacks into Chinese State-Controlled TV in Award-Winning Documentary
A group of peaceful meditators who exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign of deception toward the spiritual practice Falun Gong are featured in in a documentary that’s returning to Southern California after a summer screening. The award-winning film “Eternal Spring” is playing for one week in AMC Theatres starting Friday, Oct. 21, and if weekend…
Organized Chaos in South Central, Los Angeles
Commentary The LAPD’s 77th Division in South Central serves what some officers consider “pretty much the most violent area of the entire city and county of Los Angeles,” explained Officer Charles Simmering in a phone interview. “You’re just running and gunning all night. You’re just running. There’s never a dull moment. You’re just going from one…
Man Gets 14 Years in Federal Prison for Operating SoCal-to-Canada Drug Ring
LOS ANGELES—A 43-year-old man was sentenced Oct. 20 to 14 1/2 years in federal prison for running a drug-trafficking organization that intended to export hundreds of pounds of cocaine and heroin from Southern California into Canada, and imported MDMA, known as ecstasy, into the United States using big rigs and encrypted telephones to work the…
Man Gets 14 Years to Federal Prison for Operating SoCal-to-Canada Drug Ring
LOS ANGELES—A 43-year-old man was sentenced Oct. 20 to 14 1/2 years in federal prison for running a drug-trafficking organization that intended to export hundreds of pounds of cocaine and heroin from Southern California into Canada, and imported MDMA, known as ecstasy, into the United States using big rigs and encrypted telephones to work the…
Chinese Lab’s Purchase of US Land for Primate Breeding Facility Draws Scrutiny
A Chinese firm’s purchase of land in Florida to build a lab monkey breeding facility is drawing scrutiny over the company founders’ ties to the Chinese military. JOINN Laboratories CA Inc., the California subsidiary of a biotech firm headquartered in Beijing, in July purchased more than 1,400 acres of land for building a primate facility…
Utah Clothing Company Cotopaxi Closing San Francisco Store, CEO Says City ‘Overrun With Drugs, Criminals’
Utah-based outdoor apparel brand Cotopaxi is shutting down its store in San Francisco due to worries about crime plaguing the city, CEO Davis Smith said on Tuesday. “It’s sad, but San Francisco appears to have descended into a city of chaos. Many streets and parks are overrun with drugs, criminals, and homelessness, and local leadership…
Arizona Death Row Inmate Seeks Forensic Tests in 1980 Deaths
PHOENIX—A judge is mulling an Arizona death row prisoner’s request to have fingerprint and DNA tests conducted on evidence from the two 1980 killings for which he is scheduled to be executed next month. A lawyer for Murray Hooper said at a hearing Wednesday that her client is innocent, that no physical evidence ties him…
Human Remains Recovered From Pipe in Costa Mesa
COSTA MESA, Calif.—Authorities Oct. 19 recovered human remains from a blocked pipe at the Costa Mesa (55) Freeway at Baker Street in Costa Mesa. Caltrans and California Highway Patrol officials became aware of the blockage Oct. 17 and requested that members of the Coroner Division of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department be on hand when…
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